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Safran Opens New Composite Fan Blade Plants

Workers at Safran’s new Rochester, N.H., plant work with a composite fan blade during the resin-transfer molding process.

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This article originally appeared in the April 21 edition of Aviation Week & Space Technology.
Two new composite fan blade manufacturing plants for Safran are coming alive this month and are worth hundreds of millions of dollars in investments that indicate the Paris-based company’s latest mark of confidence in the CFM Leap-1 engine and the U.S. market.
And at least one U.S. supplier is betting its business on it, too.
A recently completed factory here and another due to be finshed ...

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